RE: Pfizer withdraws drugs from being used in executions
May 15, 2016 at 3:48 pm
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2016 at 4:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Rocket
That 1% of "bad cops" are -also- regular Joe Schmoes, trying to make a living and support their families. They've responded to hundreds, if not thousands of calls. They've helped people in need. They've been the good guys....and then.....
It's comforting, maybe, to imagine that they're horrible people with murderous hearts....but that's probably not how institutional violence or oppression works (it's hard to see how it could work at all unless you could count on the "good guys" to tow the line just as well as the "bad guys"). Personally, I had to come to terms with the fact that I was (and remain) -somone's- jackbooted thug, and -also- all of the rest that makes me, me. It's not an a or b proposition. Not saints or sinners. Perhaps we've simply set them up? We grant authority, immunity...and hand them a gun. If they respond to enough calls...it's only a matter of time.
Hehehe, to quote D'angelo, "aint no justice, just us".
That 1% of "bad cops" are -also- regular Joe Schmoes, trying to make a living and support their families. They've responded to hundreds, if not thousands of calls. They've helped people in need. They've been the good guys....and then.....
It's comforting, maybe, to imagine that they're horrible people with murderous hearts....but that's probably not how institutional violence or oppression works (it's hard to see how it could work at all unless you could count on the "good guys" to tow the line just as well as the "bad guys"). Personally, I had to come to terms with the fact that I was (and remain) -somone's- jackbooted thug, and -also- all of the rest that makes me, me. It's not an a or b proposition. Not saints or sinners. Perhaps we've simply set them up? We grant authority, immunity...and hand them a gun. If they respond to enough calls...it's only a matter of time.
Hehehe, to quote D'angelo, "aint no justice, just us".
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